I bought these roses to celebrate the day- I just can’t wait until our garden is full of flowers- and the first daffodils bloomed on his birthday-

these little miniature ones are always the first up!

Today, our friends Tara and Pat (the bat-man) came over; they are making a willow dome for their local school, and we were happily providing the willow as it badly needed cutting (in between the hail showers)

and we were finding it impossible to get to (the other sally garden needs some serious cutting too)

Our small men helped greatly, and within a hour or two, there was a large trailer of willow,

sporting some beautiful silvery catkins

(took us a long while to convince our small girl that they weren’t: “slugs! urgh!!”)

While the men chopped willow, Tara and I drank tea and crocheted- Tara is using up her stash of bits and pieces, making a gorgeous, bright and colourful square, that will some day soon become a blanket for their caravan, and inspired me to do the same (I’ve been trying to decide what to start- I wanted to work with double knit (DK) and a large hook, so I could crochet rounds of granny squares for hours at night without having to think much!!)

We gathered a basket of considerably un-inspiring yarns, but, once I interspaced each colour with white, it didn’t seem so awful, and actually looking fairly coherent:

I recently followed a link from Attic 24 which lead me to Masons who are selling this pack of completely gorgeous DK acrylic yarns…

I think I will have to invest, as I’m not sure how long my gakky yarns will last, whether I will end up with a small baby blanket (poor baby!!) or something more substantial… 🙂

5 Responses to "Down By The Sally Gardens"

We awoke to a bat flying around in our bedroom last week – I thought they were hibernating at this time of year? Maybe Pat the batman would be interested to know they are not – or maybe I am behind the times?

I love daffodils, they are such a burst of spring! And boy howdy, I need a little spring right now! I could never get the hang of crochet. My mother was an expert, even when she developed dementia, she crocheted hundreds and hundreds of hats that we donated in her name. I admire people who have home-ly skills. I dabble at things but have never become expert in any of them. I hope you are feeling a lot better. 🙂

(by the way, thanks for joining in on Paying it Forward on my blog, Shedding the Wolf [grandmagogreen.blogspot.com]. I haven’t even thought of what I’ll be making yet, but could you please email me your mail address so I can send it as soon as it’s ready? Thanks so much!

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